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Conceptual simulation modeling with onto-UML

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Giancarlo Guizzardi,

Gerd WagnerAuthors Info & Claims

WSC '12: Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference

Article No.: 5, Pages 1 - 15

Published: 09 December 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Conceptual modeling is of great importance not only to Information Systems and Software Engineering, but also to Simulation Engineering. It is concerned with identifying, analyzing and describing the essential concepts and constraints of a real-world domain with the help of a (diagrammatic) modeling language that is based on a set of basic modeling concepts (forming a metamodel). In this tutorial, we introduce the ontologically well-founded conceptual modeling language Onto-UML and show how to use it for making conceptual simulation models as the basis of model-driven simulation engineering.

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Index Terms

Conceptual simulation modeling with onto-UML
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation support systems
      1. Simulation languages
    2. Simulation types and techniques
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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WSC '12: Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference

December 2012

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Oliver Rose
Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
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University of Rostock, Germany

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INFORMS-SIM: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences: Simulation Society
SCS: Shanghai Computer Society
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